Tag: Chancellor Angela Merkel

Germany’s domestic spy chief has been moved to another top job after accusations of showing sympathy to the extremist Alternative…

Several people have been injured as thousands of far-right protesters clashed with riot police in an eastern German city where…

Anger over police who blocked a television crew at a far-right Pegida (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West)…

Children are being radicalised by their Islamist parents in Germany, the head of the domestic spy agency has warned.  The…

Seven years after Germany scrapped conscription, the government is debating the reintroduction of some kind of civilian or military national…

Germany may impose fresh controls on its borders with France and Switzerland after a surge in migrant arrivals to Spain,…

The popularity of Angela Merkel’s government has fallen after the internal dispute with her Bavarian interior minister, Horst Seehofer, over…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a deal on migration with her Bavarian interior minister, Horst Seehofer, defusing a row…

European Council President Donald Tusk has issued a “last call” for Britain to “lay the cards on the table” if…

EU leaders are due to tackle crises with migration and the euro at a summit in Brussels today (Thursday) with…

Austria has carried out a large-scale exercise on its southern border with Slovenia over fears of a repeat of the…

Italy has called for migrant “protection centres” in other EU countries to relieve overcrowding and demanded more aid for African…

Donald Trump’s tweet that “crime in Germany is way up” because of immigration has created a further rift with Chancellor…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a split with her conservative Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), which is…

Germany’s Social Democrat Party (SPD) has narrowly approved the start of formal coalition negotiations with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic…